On April 24, 2017, there was held the opening the exhibition of embroidered works of Kharkiv
​embroidery club «Uspikh». The event took place in the conference hall of the library.

For the fourth time connoisseurs of embroidery met with the masters of the Kharkiv club «Uspikh». This time the exposition includes amazing flowers. Visitors got acquainted with various embroidery techniques. The spring atmosphere of the event was endorsed with Iryna Sniehova’s verses performed by the head of the service department of our library Marharyta Kruhlova, with folk music performed by Serhii Perepelytsa, an employee of the NTU «KhPI» museum and with wishes of creative success. The exhibition is open until 12 May.

On March 16 and April 7, 2017, there were held the master classes on textile painting (batik).
The events took place in the conference hall of the library.

The events were held on the initiative and under the direct supervision of the regular participant of the exhibitions of painting, a good friend of the library, an assistant of the department «General and Experimental Physics» of the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» Yuliia Ovcharenko. The artist told participants of the master classes about the basics and history of development of the textile painting art, about creating of accessories and decoration of interiors. Everybody had an opportunity to get acquainted with nuances of the batik technique and to create his or her own artwork. The master classes aroused great interest among the library visitors and staff. That’s why they will be continued on May 18, June 7, June 16 and June 23.

On March 31, 2017, there was held the opening of the painting exhibition of Tetiana Ivanova.
The event took place in the conference hall of the library.

This is the second personal exhibition of a regular participant of international plein air events, participant of exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, the graduate of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts Tetiana Ivanova. Carefree, spring atmosphere created by cheerful colours and original techniques of producing of landscape and portrait paintings, immediately envelops visitors, gives a sense of awakening to a new life. The students of the Kharkiv Computer and Technology College and the students of NTU «KhPI» Mykhailo Kostin (Economic Faculty) and Yevhen Krykun (Mechanics and Technology Faculty) made a literary and musical greeting. There was an atmosphere of spring, youth and happiness in the air.

On March 30, 2017, there was held the movie night «Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki ―
the Stars of World Cinema». The event took place in the conference hall of the library.

The year 2017 has been declared the Year of Japan in Ukraine. The KhPI Film Studio and the Scientific and Technical Library of NTU «KhPI» organized a movie night for all connoisseurs of cinema art. The movie night was held within the framework of «Film Meetings» series and was devoted to the creative work of Japanese film directors Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki. The head of the studio, film expert Iryna Zhoresivna Faustova has acquainted students and staff of the University with the traditions of Japanese cinema and animation, as well as with the original worldview that was presented to the world by gurus of the Land of the Rising Sun. Attendees revised fragments from the films, which have become the world classics: «Seven Samurai», «Rashomon», «Dersu Uzala», «Akira Kurosawa's Dreams», anime «Howl's Moving Castle», «Spirited Away», «The Wind Rises» and others. Japanese music performed by Serhii Perepelytsa, an employee of the NTU «KhPI» museum and a friend of our library, carried participants of the movie night away to the country of cherry blossoms.

On March 23, 2017, the library hosted a theoretical seminar «Philosophical and cultural
codes of the Reformation».

The event was attended by scientists from higher educational institutions of Kharkiv: Olga Oleksiivna Dolska, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute»; Oleksandr Semenovych Filonenko, PhD (Candidate of Philosophical Sciences), Associate Professor of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; Volodymyr Mykolajovych Sklyar, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of the History of Science and Technology of NTU «KhPI»; Nikolaievska Yuliia Viktorivna, PhD (Candidate of Art History), Associate Professor of the I. P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts; Maria Yuriivna Takhtaulova, PhD (Candidate of Historical Sciences), lecturer of the Political History Department of NTU «KhPI». In their reports, the seminar participants covered the question of influence of the Reformation on the formation of a new scientific worldview and on the education reform. The participants also deliberated on a matter of interrelations between Luther's ideas and the musical works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The question of influence of the Reformation on biblical theology and on the formation of the Lutheran community of Kharkiv in the 19th century and its contribution to the social and cultural development of the city was also covered. The musical compositions of J. S. Bach performed by Ihor Cherniavskyi, a violin player and a lecturer of the I. P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts, emphasized the academic atmosphere of the event. The presidency of the seminar was holded by Andrii Volodymyrovych Kipenskyi, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Social and Humanitarian Technologies Faculty of NTU «KhPI».

All women of the Polytechnic University received a «sunny» gift from the students of the Kharkiv Computer and Technology College of NTU «KhPI». Spectacular performances, jokes, ebullient energy, juvenile eagerness created an unforgettable atmosphere of holiday, happiness and youth. Vice-rector for Scientific-and-Pedagogical Work, PhD (Candidate of Technical Sciences), Associate Professor, Professor Yurii Ivanovych Zaitsev and Deputy Director for Educational Work of the Kharkiv Computer and Technology College of NTU «KhPI» Nataliia Mykolaivna Lola made a warm welcome speech for the women of the Scientific and Technical Library.

On February 20, 2017, there was held the opening of the art exhibition «Collected Works»
by Ukrainian artist, the former student of the Polytechnic University Vadym Koltun.
The event took place in the conference hall of the library.

​During the opening of the exhibition Associate Professor of the «Ethics, Aesthetics and History of Culture» Department Mykhailo Krasykov, Director of the Hnat Khotkevych Ethnographic Museum «Slobozhanskі Skarby», pointed out that the author’s exhibition of Vadym Koltun, the graduate of the Electric Power Engineering Faculty of the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute», became the second in the series «Artists reared by KhPI». Among the guests there were the art expert, chief editor of «Pro Art» print edition Andrii Korniev, artists Mykhailo Brozghol and Oleksandr Serdiuk, the art expert, Associate Professor of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts Yevhen Kotliar, students of Computer Science and Information Technologies Faculty, lecturers and staff of our University. The author told about his creative development, he recollected the years spent at the Polytechnic University. The highlight of the evening were the musical compositions performed by Serhii Perepelytsa, an employee of the NTU «KhPI» museum and a friend of our library.

On January 11, 2017, the Scientific Library hosted a commemoration gathering devoted
to the famous educator, Professor Yurii Dmytrovych Sakara, Pro-rector of NTU «KhPI».

On January 11, 2017 Professor Yurii Dmytrovych Sakara, Pro-rector of the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» would have celebrated the 70th anniversary. The library conference hall could not accommodate all people who still cannot recover after the recent loss and united with a common grief. Friends and colleagues did not hold back emotions while watching the movie «In Blessed Memory of Yurii Dmytrovych Sakara». The film director, the head of the studio «KhPI-Film» Iryna Zhoresivna Faustova emphasized that the film had been created on call of her heart. All the speeches and memoirs were imbued with sincere gratitude, bitterness of loss, pain and irrepressible longing for an outstanding person. A person who was, is and will always be in hearts of all the Politechnicans!

On November 22, 2016, the art exhibition of «Physicists and Lyrists. Dialogue»
was opened.

On November 22, 2016 at 14:30 the exhibition of art works «Physicists and Lyrists. Dialogue» was opened. The art works by an assistant of the department «General and Experimental Physics» of the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» Yuliia Ovcharenko and a lecturer of «Restoration of Easel and Monumental Painting» Department of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts Olenа Kyshkurno were presented. The event, which united famous Ukrainian universities, was held in a cozy family atmosphere. Visitors had the opportunity to talk to the authors of the exhibition, to find out specialists’ professional opinion, to share their own impressions. The exhibition was opened by a famous bard, a member of Yurii Vizbor Art Song Club Yurii Pravdin and a member of the Interregional Union of Writers, Kharkiv poet Liudmyla Moiseieva.

On November 3, 2016, an exhibition of embroidered pictures «Magic of Colours in the
Cloudiest Day» was opened.

At the beginning of November in the conference room of the library an exhibition of embroidered pictures «Magic of Colours in the Cloudiest Day» was opened by Kharkov embroidery design club «Inspiration». Magic images, poems in the author's performance, acquaintance with the various techniques of embroidery, master-classes for the selection of materials for the work, interesting stories of the club history — all this awaits visitors of the event. A musical gift for craftswomen was made by the young pianist, a nine-year old pupil of the 2nd form of the Kharkiv Modest Petrovych Musorhskyi children's music school № 7 Hanna Trubkina. The exhibition is displayed until 15 November.